[Marxism] "Terrorist" did it for money to save his sick brother

[Louis Proyect]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/05/25/2009-05-25_terror_plotter_did_it_for_me_brother.html
Terror plotter David Williams did it for me, says sick brother Lord 
McWilliams

BY Joe Kemp and Helen Kennedy
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

"My insurance wasn't good enough," said Lord McWilliams, 20, who has a 
deadly liver disease.

His brother, David Williams, wanted money "to speed up the process," 
McWilliams said. "Medicaid only goes so far."

He dismissed as "crazy" federal accusations that Williams was a 
Jew-hater who wanted to wage jihad.

McWilliams said the FBI informant who lured his brother and three other 
hapless petty criminals into a plot to blow up synagogues and shoot down 
a plane promised enough money to take care of his transplant.

"[My brother] told me, 'Don't worry, when you go to the doctor, tell 
them you got money,'" McWilliams said.

McWilliams, who has already had his spleen removed, said his brother 
told him he would have $20,000 for the operation.

Their mother, Elizabeth McWilliams, said her older son had told her he 
would be able to give her a wad of cash Thursday, which was the day 
after the terrorist plot was to have been carried out.

"He was a loving, sweet kid. He took his brother's illness worse than 
me," she said.

Lord McWilliams said the informant, who often drove his brother to the 
hospital to visit, even promised to take him to Universal Studios when 
he was well again.

"He said I didn't have to pay for nothing," McWilliams said.

Federal prosecutors say Williams, 28; James Cromitie, 44; Laguerre 
Payen, 27, and Onta Williams, 32, all of upstate Newburgh, were militant 
Muslims caught on tape railing against Jews and plotting to blow up 
Jewish temples.

They were arrested last Wednesday while planting what they thought were 
plastic explosives outside two Riverdale synagogues.

They also had a Stinger missile - phony, supplied by the FBI - with 
which they allegedly planned to shoot down a military plane. Family and 
friends say the four were down-on-their luck ex-cons who apparently 
thought they would be paid by the FBI informant.

In dozens of interviews around Newburgh, no one can remember hearing any 
of the four talk of Jews or jihad. They had converted to Islam in 
prison, but they drank beer, ate pork and rarely prayed, family members 
said.

The informant, Shahed Hussain, is a Pakistani immigrant who went 
undercover for the fedsseven years ago to avoid deportation after being 
convicted of fraud. He was not authorized to pay anyone.

In the Bronx Sunday, a bomb scare emptied the Riverdale YM-YWHA after 
someone spotted an abandoned bag. Police searched the building but found 
no explosives.

In Brooklyn, law enforcement and elected officials met with Hasidic 
community leaders from Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park to 
discuss security.

"We will have officers going to yeshivas and synagogues to do site 
surveys," said state Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn).

hkennedy at nydailynews.com

With Sergey Kadinsky and Tony Connors